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The eight cranial nerve, the vestibulocochlear nerve (CN VIII) contains the cochlear and the vestibular nerves (superior and the inferior division) that exit antero-laterally from the ponto-medullary junction in the cerebellopontine angle and reach the internal auditory canal. The anatomical course, its function, pathology and major clinical syndromes are described.
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Peckham, M.E., Wiggins, R.H. (2018). Cranial Nerve VIII: Vestibulocochlear. In: Agarwal, N., Port, J. (eds) Neuroimaging: Anatomy Meets Function. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57427-1_19
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